WHY SUNDAY?

Why do you observe Sunday as a day of rest and worship?  Is it because you think Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead on Sunday?  If so, read on. (Oh, and keep in mind the wise proverb, “He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame...

THE SIGNS WERE ALL THERE – OR WERE THEY?

Had you been alive and a mature Christian during the first 20 to 25 years of the 20th Century you would have heard preacher after preacher proclaiming confidently that the Lord’s return was imminent, many exclaiming quite emotionally, “He might well return...

CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD!

Out of the billions and billions on this planet our great God and Savior has chosen to open the minds of some of humanity to His existence and reality. Think of it. He passed over billions and billions, multitudes of whom were more moral than many of us were. Many had...

“I MARRIED A SINNER!”

“I married a sinner!”  That’s what the preacher said last Sunday morning.  I am quite certain what he meant was that he had married a Christian lady, who, from time to time, was guilty of some manner of sin.  She, of course, could...

THE “SCHOOLMASTER” LAW

The apostle Paul speaks of a set of laws that were repealed and set aside by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He uses two different terms for this set of laws: 1) “the works of the law,,” and 2) “our schoolmaster.” He then asks...

THE ONE THING THAT DISTRESSED PAUL THE MOST!

Have you ever noticed the one thing that caused the apostle Paul the most mental anguish and distress? He places his finger squarely on it in 2 Corinthians 12, verse 21, “When I come again, my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many WHICH HAVE...

SATAN’S CATCH-22

Sin has an accompanying blinding component. Continue to knowingly, wittingly sin and spiritual error will slowly and surely color your thinking and beliefs. The prophet Daniel understood this truth perfectly writing of how one must turn from their sins in order to...

THE TWO-FOLD MISSION OF THE CROSS!

Multitudes of Christians have a narrow view of what Jesus accomplished on the cross. They see only that payment for our sins was achieved through Christ’s crucifixion. They fail completely to see the far greater work that was achieved by the cross – that...

COULD JESUS CHRIST RETURN TONIGHT?

The apostle Paul was confronted with that question raised by the Thessalonian believers.  That is why he wrote 2 Thessalonians.  In his first letter to the Thessalonian believers Paul had stated, “For yourselves know perfectly (or, as we might say,...